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Pro-Palestinian activists took credit for a felony arson attack outside of UC Berkeley’s Koshland Hall on Thursday. Details about the fire were scarce on Friday. But it is at least the second case of arson at Cal that pro-Palestinian activists have claimed responsibility for this month. A UC Berkeley police vehicle was set on fire on June 1. On Thursday morning, an anonymous “student intifada” post took credit for the latest incident. “UCLA students were attacked last night so we retaliated with a firebomb on UCB campus,” the post said. “We unloaded a firebomb on the side of a campus...

For almost 400 years America has seen its citizens educating their children and themselves, though both the scope, structure and quality of education has changed somewhat during that time. For much of the history of the United States, education of children took place primarily at home, often along with private schools for some, and locally managed and supported schools for others. Education included the general ethos of Christianity and Biblical morality as well as academic subjects. The New England Primer and later, the nation-wide McGuffey's Readers (120+ million copies) were the primary instruments of education, and in helping to form...

Pro-Palestinian protesters reportedly firebombed “the side of a building” on the University of California Berkeley (UCB) campus and claimed that students had been “attacked” on another campus. In a post on Instagram on Thursday, Palestine Action in the United States shared a post from an anonymous user who claimed responsibility for firebombing the side of Koshland Hall, a building at UCB that houses “labs from the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology.”

During a sermon at the University of Illinois Chicago, a speaker for the campus’s Muslim Students Association denounced America and democracy, describing them as a “cancer” spreading worldwide, while advocating for the adoption of Islam as the “new way of life” for humanity. In a sermon delivered at the campus’s Muslim Students Association (MSA) last month, Mohammad Nusairat, a University of Chicago Illinois (UIC) student, declared that America and its values are a “cancer.”

Angry parents almost got into a fistfight with a school official after their autistic son was given a questionnaire asking about trans identity, sex, suicide, and violence. McCall and Jon Nelson claimed their son Hut, 13, was so badly affected by the quiz he constantly worried his friends disliked him and stopped playing football. His mother said they had the same conversation with him hundreds of times as he was unable to move on, and it 'drastically changed his life'. The questionnaire was given to him by administrators at Mount Logan Middle School in Logan, Utah, on February 7 as...

St. Cloud State University finalizes plan to cut back on degrees, minors amidst budget problems Nearly one in three degree programs at St. Cloud State University will get the ax, due to budgetary problems. Roughly 60 percent of minors are also getting the boot at the public university, according to a recent announcement. “In a presentation to the campus community on Tuesday, SCSU Acting President Larry Lee confirmed the university will suspend 42 degree programs and 50 minor programs,” KARE 11 reported yesterday. The news outlet reported that other cuts were made last year as well. “The reductions will leave...

In an age when people can self identify as something other than what they actually are, protestors who trapped employees inside a building are claiming, “This is not a hostage situation.”Uh, yes, that’s exactly what it is.CNN just reported: (the bolding is mine)After weeks on campus, pro-Palestinian protesters entered and barricaded the Student Services Building at California State University, Los Angeles, Wednesday, video from CNN affiliate KABC showed.A group of 50 to 100 protesters barricaded the exits on the first floor and blocked off areas around the building, university spokesperson Erik Frost Hollins told the Los Angeles Times. The university...

A group of trans activists appeared to disrupt a New York City school board meeting by loudly humming and howling as attendees attempted to discuss a policy that would ban transgender athletes from playing on girls' sports teams. The meeting on Wednesday night was held by Community Education Council District 2, Manhattan's largest school district. The meeting planned to discuss a controversial measure passed in March that would demand the city's Department of Education allow a public review of its transgender athlete policy. Since the measure was passed, trans advocates have showed up at each school board meeting to protest...

After a recent shooting killed a 17-year-old student, Seattle’s Garfield High School may begin rethinking its decision to remove police officers back in 2020. On June 6, a 17-year-old student was shot and killed in the school parking lot after trying to break up a fight between two boys. Police reported that the suspect fled on foot and still remains on the run. Meanwhile, former Garfield police officer Bennie Radford, who now lives in Florida, can’t help but wonder if he would have made a difference. "My stomach is wrenching right now," Radford told The Seattle Times. "I never should...

On Friday, May 31, alumni descended on Columbia University's Manhattan campus to celebrate their class reunions. In addition to eating and drinking, the festivities included several panel discussions featuring professors and administrators...In the audience, according to two attendees, were several top members of the Columbia administration. Given the sensitivity of the subject—the eruption of anti-Semitism on campus in the wake of Hamas's Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel put a national spotlight on the school, and Columbia recently settled a lawsuit with a Jewish student who accused the school of fostering an unsafe learning environment—the administrators' presence made sense.The administrators...

Survivors of the Sandy Hook massacre are torn between celebrating their high school graduation Wednesday and remembering the 20 classmates who lost their lives in one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. Lilly Wasilnak, 17, said graduation always seemed so far away "but now it’s here and you’re ready but I think we can’t forget that there’s a whole chunk of our class missing." Wasilnak joins Newtown High School seniors walking across the stage as they embark on the next chapters of their lives. She told The Associated Press the accomplishment brings "very mixed emotions." "Trying to be...

The recent protests at UNC are only one example of the unrest at several campuses across the U.S. (albeit mostly “elite” ones) in response to events in the Middle East. By April 2024, protests had been going on for months at UNC. An escalation occurred when, after students at Columbia University introduced the tactic of encampments on their campus—i.e., camping out in a public space—the tactic spread to other universities, including Carolina. While free expression, including protests, are extended broad license on campus (especially at public universities), they still must comply with university policies and government laws regarding time, place,...

A public school teacher was caught taking a student to an abortion clinic without her parents knowing, according to an investigative report from the New Hampshire Department of Education. The teacher took the day off, claiming to be sick with food poisoning. The teacher later admitted to the school he or she was not actually sick and “went with a student to a medical appointment,” per the report. According to the redacted document, the teacher spoke to the student for weeks about her “options,” then brought her to the abortion clinic during school hours to end the life of her...

A federal judge has blocked President Joe Biden’s pro-transgender rewrite of the federal government’s Title IX regulations against sexual discrimination. “Joe Biden’s unlawful effort to weaponize Title IX for his extremist agenda has been stopped in its tracks,” said a statement from Ken Paxton, Texas’ Attorney General. “Threatening to withhold education funding by forcing states to accept ‘transgender’ policies that put women in danger was plainly illegal,” said Paxton, who filed the lawsuit. “Nothing in the [federal law] prohibits discrimination based on gender identity,” U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor declared Tuesday, in a decision that only protects Texans. The judge...

Diversity bosses in Washington state accused a student council of promoting white supremacy for suggesting a mural of hammer-wielding Norse god Thor could represent their school team. Students at Mountain View High School in Vancouver offered a mural of the god - whose name translates as 'thunder' - to decorate a wall in a newly renovated building as their senior gift. Its team is nicknamed 'The Thunders' and there is already a Thor statue in the school's main entrance. But the AI image they came up with horrified the district's equity office which demanded the god be removed or accompanied...

Low-income minority students from one chain of NYC charter schools rank #1 in my state in math. Why do they do so well? Because school leaders have high expectations. And unlike government run schools, Success Academy innovates!

On Oct. 13, just six days after Hamas terrorists infiltrated the Jewish state and slaughtered more than 1,000 Israelis, Stockton University professor Raz Segal penned an op-ed accusing Israel of genocide. Months later, the University of Minnesota tapped Segal to lead its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, prompting resignations from members of the center's advisory board. On Friday, Minnesota's interim College of Liberal Arts dean, Ann Waltner, extended an offer to Segal to serve as the center's chair, according to an internal email obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The decision prompted immediate pushback from members of the center's...

The local middle schooler who was barred from wearing an “only two genders” shirt to school has lost his federal appeals case, as his attorneys consider a Supreme Court appeal. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit in Boston has ruled against Middleboro student -snip Liam, now in 8th grade, last year was banned by school officials from wearing a shirt to school that read, “There are only two genders.” The 7th grader then wore a shirt that stated, “There are censored genders,” and again, he was ordered to take off the shirt. A U.S. district judge previously...

While debating the role schools play in their students’ abortions, a Michigan school board member said teachers should be able to refer students for abortions. The Caledonia School Board is debating a current policy which restricts teachers from discussing abortion with students or referring them for one. The school board is considering either eliminating the policy altogether or updating it. During the meeting, Jason Saidoo said teachers should be able to make the decision for themselves if a student should be referred for an abortion. “I think option one, rescinding the policy, it takes the politics out of it, and...

The higher-education industry is having a bad decade. Some problems are obvious: With wokeness and campus unrest, colleges and universities have lost some of their mystique. They’ll tell you to “follow the science,” right before they tell you that men can get pregnant. Violent antisemitic riots haven’t done much to burnish their image, nor have the limp responses to those riots from many university administrations. Whom the gods would destroy, they first make ridiculous. Mission accomplished! Then there’s the economics of it: The reward of college was supposed to be a good job at the end. [snip] Younger people are...